I thank you! My faulty memory told me it was more than a line change in weewx.conf. Simple and it worked. Thanks again
On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 9:10:40 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > I remember that discussion, but can't find it either. > > The Vantage stations do their own record generation. For whatever reasons, > they put out windDir in discrete 22.5° intervals. So, that's what you get > with the default hardware record generation > <http://www.weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#record_generation>. > > If you want WeeWX to calculate the archive records, set > record_generation=software. Then you will get the vector averaged direction. > > -tk > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:34 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I recently updated Weewx from ver 3.7.1 to 4.2.0 on a PI 2. After >> nearly 3 years running continuously it was time to get a new SD card going. >> The 3.7.1 update was from a earlier version 3 or later version 2 system. >> Hardware - Davis Vantage 2 with USB datalogger and USB connection to the >> PI. All code and drivers are straight out of the box from Debian/Raspbian >> installation. >> Back after the upgrade to 3.7.1 was made, all windDir outputs to charts >> and reporting to sites (CWOP, Wunderground on 5 minute intervals) were in >> discrete 22 degree increments. Back then, after searching the forums, a >> fix had been posted to get the average wind direction over the reporting >> interval rather than the discrete values. As I recall it was a simple >> change to a couple of code lines. Naturally, I didn't record the fix >> anywhere. After trying all the same searches on windDir, degrees, ordinals >> etc, I can't fix the fix so I can apply it to the 4.2.0 version. >> I would appreciate any help. I don't want to revert to my Weewx 3.7.1 >> imaged card for multiple reasons. >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1089d5e1-a2a1-404e-ad13-d43a89644879n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1089d5e1-a2a1-404e-ad13-d43a89644879n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1129c630-bc29-453f-ab89-1a6481235eean%40googlegroups.com.
